<t> Seems to me if your going to be so picky as to where the Battleships are placed at Pearl in relation to torpedo damage the same logic would apply to all ports throughout the entire game. That would be a lot of extra work.<br/>
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I see nothing wrong with how its handled now as several ...

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I had high hopes for Hearts of Iron but its just too **** easy to beat.<br/>
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I would kill for a good operational level WWII game with production and even a halfway decent AI. Some people have some ...

<t>Bases do not change hands nerarly as often. There are new "modules" that enhance defences as well as facility benefeits that kick in when certain bases are linked togther.<br/>
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The continents now "lock" one you have all the bases so enemy troops cannot use the hart drpships unless they take ...

<t>Im currently playing Planetside as my full time game and I can say once you get past the "noob" stage and get some command rank and join a decent sized unit you can have a blast leading squads and platoons of Armor/Infantry and Air units to take continental objectives.<br/>
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The Outfit im ...

<t>Wow thank you for that link.<br/>
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I still have a few shelves in my hobby room with 30 or so Boardgames. The rest of the shelves are full of miniatures and computer game boxes. I still on occasion pull one down and rifle through the box while waitng for something to download on my computer ...

<t>SPIs games had a lot of good subjects for games but the biggest problem was most were not playtested. Probably because they put so **** many out.<br/>
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I once made a trip to NYC when I was 18 in the early eighties and tried to look up their headquarters which at the time was listed in ...

OMG I remember Ice Wars.

You had to "purchase" units for the scenarios. It was a fun little game. I played it quite a bit with one guy who also enjoyed SPIs "Musket and Pike".

Man fond memories. If only I had kept all those games.

Ahhh Good ole Roccos.

I had huge infantry armies supported by Roccos. Of course I had leopards and marders mixed with M-60s and panthers but hey who knew =p

<t>River I got that same set one Christmas when I was around 9. The Germans had an authentic 88 and pillboxes to add to your inventory of stuff it came with. The americans also had 2 landing craft. Wow that was one of the best Xmas gifts ever. Countless hours playing with it.<br/>
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<t>My first Board wargame was Avalon Hills "D-Day". It was followed up by "Africa Corps", "Tobruk", "Fall of France" and the game that really hooked me "Russian Campaign".<br/>
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I was a big time fan of "Squad leader" for many years as that game grew into the rules monster from hell.<br/>
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<r>Hmm that is a good point.<br/>
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Yorktown would probably have been sunk or at least totally crippled.<br/>
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2 out of the 4 japanese carriers perhaps unable to launch.<br/>
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The afternoon would have been interesting with 2 US carriers with somewhat depleted airgroups launching ...

<t>Either way the events of that morning are fascinating to study. The combination of incredibly bad Japanes luck and amazingingly good American luck changed the Pacific war in a matter of minutes.<br/>
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One can only imagine the lump in Nagumos throat when he heard the screech of the ...

<t>Actually IMHO the Japanese "doctrine" was always to concentrate the main fleet carriers as much as possible with the CVLS acting out smaller support roles.<br/>
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Breaking up the 6 CV Task Force for the Coral Sea operations made sense at the time as they did not expect a major allied defence ...

<t>I recently started a game vrs the AI. I was Allied and gave the Japanese 200% commitment and started on the "hard" setting.<br/>
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After some early non lethal skirmishes the only offensive move the comp made was Gili Gili. I played until the end of JUly just building up a huge force to go ...

The big problem with HOI is the AI. Playing as the Soviets im in Berlin in 1942.

Kinda makes me think it needs a little bit of a tweek. Not sure how the naval is as ive only played the Soviets so far.

Aye Bomb alley carnage was truely amazing. I really miss that game. North Atlantic 86 was good as well.

Many long hours spent in front of a smoking Apple IIc

My have we come a long way

<t>Thanks for the info. I just started playing a few days ago and Im going to grind against the AI for a bit to learn the mechanics.<br/>
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Since the days of SSIs "Guadalcanal" and Avalon hills "Flat top" Ive been a huge fan of this campaign enjoying the challenge of the Japanese navies uphill ...

Very well done. As a newb learning the ropes you have shown me quite a bit.

Kudos

Ive noticed most of the games seem to use those 2 scenarios and as I ramp up my experience with the game was wondering if my "practice sessions" getting ready for PBEM should revolve around those 2 choices.

<r>Doesnt anyone remember Bomb alley? pardon me if I missed an earlier post that mentioned it.<br/>
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Along with Guadalcanal those 2 SSI games wasted many many hours of my study time in college <E>;)</E><br/>
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From keeping Malta supplied to keeping the Africa Korps supplied the game ...